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Syracuse's point guard had a career-high 18 points, 13 assists and nine rebounds Monday to lead the No. 7 Orange (12-1) to a 96-62 victory over Central Connecticut State, giving coach Jim Boeheim his 902nd career win, which ties Bob Knight for second all time among Division I men's coaches. Duke's Mike Krzyzewski has 939.

Boeheim's first chance to pass Knight comes Wednesday at home against Rutgers (9-2), which has won five in a row.

"They're off to a great start and we're looking forward to that challenge," Boeheim said of the Big East opener.

After hitting only 5 of 26 shots in the three previous games, Carter-Williams was 6-for-10 from the floor, including 3 of 4 from behind the 3-point arc.

No. 5 Indiana 69, Iowa 65: Cody Zeller scored 15 of his 19 in the second half and the Hoosiers (13-1, 1-0) opened Big Ten play by holding off the host Hawkeyes (11-3, 0-1). Indiana ended a four-game losing streak in Iowa City.

No. 9 Minn. 76, No. 18 Michigan St. 63: Andre Hollins scored 22 as the host Gophers (13-1, 1-0 Big Ten), who moved into the top 10 for the first time in 16 years, beat the Spartans (11-3, 0-1), who had won 13 of the last 15 meetings.

"I've been fortunate to coach some great kids since the year 2000 and to be at a place for 13 years," Fernandez, already the all-time winningest men's or women's Bulls basketball coach, said in a news release. "Not many people get that opportunity to do that now with the amount of changes in men's basketball, women's basketball and football."

No. 1 UConn 95, Oregon 51: The Huskies (12-0) moved atop the Top 25 for the first time since the end of the 2010-11 season and got 19 points from Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis to rout the host Ducks.